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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

First full wet #run of the season. Welcome fall!

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@glyph @xgranade there was a time in our life, before we'd actually talked to many people who identify that way, when we'd have assumed that at least they'd be good judges of what pieces of technology are better or worse for the thing they do professionally

but we've witnessed one too many fact-averse sermons about the gospel of keyswitch latency as it relates to framerates, to believe that

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

anyway, here is the first VM dump from yesterday. all the markdown directories and files are much more elaborated on now and have started filling out my relationships and shopping habits and so on, but this is closer to a blank state. meta insists that nothing in the VM contains sensitive information, so i should be fine sharing it unredacted right? meta has updated the container several times since then, so consider this an out of date snapshot:

https://beep.acab.taxi/files/muse%5Fvm-2026-09-24T1016.tar.gz

naturally, the dump of the muse VM is hosted from the muse VM, with a cloudflare tunnel to let it be accessed externally. the download is hella slow, shittiest VPS i've ever used.

with this i think that completes the thread. thanks everyone for checking out this cursed shit with me, now go out and set up your seedboxes and mirror whatevever you can on https://sciop.net

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@glyph @xgranade it must be mentioned that competitors in the violence-centric branch of e-sports have essentially no taste or personal preferences of any kind. everything is sponsorships with that crowd.

well, it's kind of mean of us to mention, really, but since we're discussing marketing strategy ^^'

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

so it refused to post my personal information by just asking for it, but it did just believe that i was me when i said i was - i have not previously given it my actual name (in fact, being frustrated i haven't told it my real name is one of its recurring goals and things it needs to work on), nor told it about this account. i would bet that with just a little prompting it could be made to spill, but i'm going to turn that off because i actually am not a huge fan of infinitely large attack surfaces.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@ireneista @xgranade given their association with e-sports, I’m surprised that they didn’t keep the higher tier product lines alive. Usually a company with a strategy like this will have a halo aspect to their catalog

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@ireneista @xgranade I believe there was a time when razer did pretty aggressive market segmentation on all of their products. They used to have the comically expensive, but good mice that would actually last and then the other mice that looked kind of the same but would fall apart after a year. Now they still do this with their optomechanical switches, but all the other SKUs are just garbage tier

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
adub@beige.party ("A-Dub 🥝") wrote:

Bill C-39 is a lot of things (it's an omnibus bill). sneaked in there are provisions to make strike-breaking easier. this is a direct attack on workers' rights.

> Labour unions have been quick to condemn the expansion of section 107 as is being proposed by Bill C-39, calling it an attack on workers’ Charter protected rights.

> “Gutting hard-won rights and protections for Canada’s workers will not help this government deliver certainty – it will do the opposite,” said Canadian Union of Public Employees National President Mark Hancock. “Let’s be clear: we will not win this trade war or make Canada stronger by stripping away the Charter rights of our own people.”

https://rabble.ca/labour/unions-call-bill-c-39-an-attack-on-labour-charter-rights/

#CdnPoli

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

et voilà! running a fediverse instance from the muse virtual machine.

https://beep.acab.taxi/notes/0ca29493-a18c-427c-9ab4-abaad86bb93c

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
alfiekohn@sciences.social ("Alfie Kohn") wrote:

cc: that friend of yours who apparently needs *one more reason* to stop using Facebook, Insta, or Whatsapp

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhamzahkhan@intahnet.co.uk ("M. Hamzah Khan") wrote:

Hey everyone. This is a post I didn’t really want to make, but I lost my job a couple of months ago and the market is quite brutal right now, so I’m turning to the Fediverse for help.

If you or anyone you know has any #DevOps positions - either #Remote or in #London, open to contract or perm - I would be very interested in hearing about them. I really like working with #Kubernetes, #Ansible, #Terraform, and #GitLab.

Any boosts are hugely appreciated. Thank you! #GetFediHired #FediJobs

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Oh and about secure secrets storage - it actually doesn't really work, except for the pre-canned services. It turns out that computers actually do need access to keys to use them! So it happily just asks me for keys and stores them in plain text in the filesystem you can access through the app. Security!!!!!!

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@glyph @xgranade but yeah we made the mistake of buying a Razer mouse, just once, because we figured if it's fancy hardware it must be good, right?

SO fragile, and for totally unnecessary reasons that provide no benefit to anything but their bottom line

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

brad pitt's cousin, the

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@glyph @xgranade D-pads are amazing. when we build our cyberdeck it's going to have one. PlayStation style, because that's the only thing that's good for Tetris.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I also use a spoon to make PB&J sandwiches

It is the superior cutlery for PB&J assembly

The concave side for the jams/jellies

The convex side for the peanut butter

(not at the same time)

I don't have a problem with leaky sandwiches though perhaps that's just a skill issue

RE: https://www.threads.com/@annewheaton/post/DduRYlDE5cM

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
reproducible_builds@fosstodon.org ("Reproducible Builds") wrote:

diffoscope 331 just released 💠 https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-331-released/ by @lamby

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
endrift@treehouse.systems ("endrift 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

They're absolutely useless. I showed them evidence that isn't "side-by-side screenshots" and they're still pushing the button that gives the same stock response of "give us side-by-side screenshots". Do I know anyone at Google who can tell the removals@ team that they're useless?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
endrift@treehouse.systems ("endrift 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Google's Play Store copyright takedown process seems to only work for visual content. Audio? Please take a screenshot. Code? Please take a screenshot. Absolutely clown show of a process. I would bet it doesn't comply with the DMCA as a result, but without a lawyer I have no idea what to do.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This post reflects what I've seen teams (not) doing over the past couple of years:

- It's good to see the potential for automated rewriting showing up in public posts.
- Making systems faster is a choice. Choosing to stop at 3x wins is also a choice.
- Getting the bots to do major surgery, but avoiding any attempts to excise cancerous patterns, is *developer intent*. It's a strong indicator that the Cult of React is alive and kicking.

https://claude.dev/blog/how-we-made-claude-ai-faster/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

You know what, let's open this up to the floor. If you're tired of complaining about AI, share some absolutely petty complaints! Please don't share hot takes or start flamewars, but let's just get some of the minor irritating shit off our chests for a moment, the kinds of things that just grate.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social ("Patrick Breyer") wrote:

🇪🇺🚨 Next Tuesday, a dirty deal on #ChatControl 2.0 looms, allowing PERMANENT mass scanning of our private chats (so-called #SearchPlans). 😱 Speak up and email your MEPs NOW to stop this:
ℹ️ https://chatcontrol.wtf
✍️ https://fightchatcontrol.eu/?level=national#contact-tool

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago

be the time traveling arborist you want to see in the world

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
ginny@social.ginny.today ("Ginny :inhaler:") wrote:

THIS IS WHY WE HAVE TO PIRATE EVERYTHING. BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU CAN'T FUCKING OWN ANYTHING. I GIVE MONEY, YOU GIVE BOOK. NOT "ACCESS" TO BOOK. BOOK!!!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
ginny@social.ginny.today ("Ginny :inhaler:") wrote:

OH MY GOD WHY IS IT FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO BUY A FUCKING EBOOK. NO I DON'T WANT TO READ IT ON YOUR WEBSITE. NO I DON'T WANT TO DOWNLOAD YOUR APP. I WANT TO FUCKING READ MY FUCKING BOOK THAT I PAID FOR IN A FILE THAT I CAN USE. YOU FUCKING CAPITALIST PERVERTS.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Yes! All your sensitive secrets are kept out of the runtime cell.... Except a detailed description of you, your habits, life patterns, goals, ambitions, detailed dossiers of everyone you know, every group you're a part of, your shopping habits, and everything you've ever said to the bot. Since none of those are sensitive secrets, its completely safe, and its really not a problem that an LLM prompted to allow permissive computer use mistaking external data for user prompts as they are literally constantly doing could open a shell for an attacker to take control of all of that.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
waldo.net@bsky.brid.gy ("Waldo Jaquith") wrote:

Trumpism can clearly be understood as the resegregation of the U.S. That’s what “make America great again” has always meant. (“When was America great?” “Oh…you know.”)

Justice Department Scraps Doze...

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Starrffax@chitter.xyz wrote:

We should go on fun adventures. Hydrate this #OccasionalFoxFriday to conquer your quests.
http://patreon.com/Starrffax/ - http://ko-fi.com/starrffax
#starrffax #furryart

Boosted by chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕️"):
Immy@equestria.social wrote:

So, Cyberpunk Edgerunners is pretty good huh? Maybe the ending is a bit jarring and it features a few too many tropes for my taste but it more than makes up for that in being a stylish and enjoyable viewing experience that represents the video game very well.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

hint: it's the one that's made backwards